May 9, 2011
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Stu dent Honored with Newman Civil Fellow Award
Student Alicia Dicken, a second year accounting major, was honored as a Newman Civil Fellow by Campus Compact.
President Dr. Ron Erickson nominated Dicken for the award for her outstanding academic achievements and for her involvement in the community. Dicken is an excellent student, mentor at The Learning Connection, and heavily involved in the honor society Phi Theta Kappa. Dicken is also very dedicated to ensuring that children in this area of Appalachia are well nourished and receive gifts during the Christmas season.
Dicken was honored previously this year with the Charles J. Ping Student Service Award for her outstanding leadership and contributions to the local community.
The award is in honor of Dr. Frank Newman, one of Campus Compact's founders, who was a tireless advocate for the role of higher education in preparing students for active and engaged citizenship. The Newman Civic Fellows Awards recognize inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. There were 135 students honored from 30 states honored as Newman Civic Fellows. |
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Providing Help for our Displaced Employees
When human beings lose something of significant value there is increased potential for the development of symptoms of trauma. The degree of these symptoms are correlated to the degree of significance the individual attaches to that item lost. Loss of employment is perhaps one of the most "significantly valued" activities that most individuals cherish. Due to economic crisis and budgetary planning events Hocking College has been forced to reduce employee strength and 23 of our friends and peers will be leaving our midst. I wanted to share with you some of the following physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral and even spiritual responses that those who lose something of significant value (employment) might experience.
Normal responses to abnormal events such as job loss due to downsizing:
Physical: agitation, headaches, gastrointestinal distress, chest pain, elevated blood pressure, rapid heart rate and muscle tremors.
Cognitive: intrusive thoughts, memory & concentration difficulty, preoccupation, disorientation, suspiciousness, blaming and poor problem solving.
Emotional: Anxiety, depression, hopelessness and despair, unpredictable and rapid mood swings, irritability, anger, numbness or disconnected to others, apprehension, emotional shock, emotional outbursts, feeling overwhelmed, inappropriate emotional response to environment.
Behavioral: Sleep problems, substance abuse, self mutilation, cry easily, increased famiy conflict, isolation, defiance of authority, inability to rest, intensified pacing, loss of appetite, major change in social activities.
Spiritual: Questioning good and evil, attempting to make sense out of senselessness, searching for the meaning of the experience, crisis in faith, struggling with understanding WHY.
Those of you who are not being displaced by these unfortunate economic events can be instrumental in helping our friends and peers adjust at this time of turmoil by showing your support and caring through listening, helping those displaced by connecting them with your employment resources and by befriending those who are leaving us in their journey to new opportunities. The counseling center is available to provide further supports for employees by contacting Dr. Roger Buck at JL 256 or calling for an appointment at ext. 6095.
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DAAP Wins 2011 Innovation Award
Hocking College was honored by the League for Innovation in the Community College organization with a 2011 Student Services and Activities Innovation award for the Drug and Alcohol Awareness Program's (DAAP) outstanding achievements.
Founded in the fall of 2010, with advisor George Petrovay, the Drug and Alcohol Awareness Program (DAAP) Team has a simple yet positive mission statement: To keep students at Hocking College safe, legal and informed. The DAAP team is staffed and operated by students and student interns in the Choices Drug and Alcohol diversion program.
The Innovation of the Year Award is designed to recognize college staff members who have designed and implemented a significant innovation. The award recognizes capstone achievements and the continuing renewal of the spirit of innovation and experimentation upon which the League was founded.
"DAAP looks beyond the present, into the future, and continues to seek and achieve positive and measurable progress by continuing its commitment to keep the student body of Hocking College and the community that surrounds it safe, legal and informed," according to the Hocking College innovation award application.
The League for Innovation in Community College is an organization that represents and serves America's 1,200 community colleges, recognize and celebrate the colleges' central role in ensuring an educated U.S. citizenry and a globally competitive workforce |
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STARS Nominations Submissions Due May 19th
The STARS Ceremony for this quarter will be held on June 1, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Multiplex and will be honoring achievements from Winter quarter. We are now accepting applications for nominations in the following areas:
- "The Green Award"
This will be given to recognize outstanding efforts from last quarter in the area of education of sustainable, renewable and environmental issues or the implementation thereof. - The "We are One Hocking" Award
This award will be given to recognize outstanding efforts from last quarter in the area of Cross-Cultural Education and or community unification. - Most Outstanding Contribution to Campus or Community Life
This award will be given to recognize a project which made a positive impact on campus or community life, last quarter.
Please send nominations by e-mail to Giles Lee by 5pm on May 19, 2011. Nominations should include the name of the group or person nominated and a description of the project, which includes the date that the project took place. Feel fee to include photos, video, evaluations and references in the nomination e-mail.
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All Employee Learning Day
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Thank you to everyone who attended last week's All Employee Learning Day symposium on May 4, 2011. We appreciate, and have started to review, the feedback provided by everyone in preparation for the HLC Self Study.
To those who "chose us a second time," the testimonials and insight you provided were inspiring. For any Hocking College alumni among our faculty, staff and administration, please contact Laura Alloway if you would like to participate in an upcoming alumni focus group or assist with our new alumni initiative, and did not have an opportunity to add your name to the list at the presentation.
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Mission
Hocking College provides a unique, innovative, and quality education in a supportive experience- based learning environment, preparing students for employment and transfer education opportunities, while teaching the value of lifelong learning, promoting diversity and developing citizens who are engaged in their local and global communities.
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Construction Management Students Help Nelsonville Main Street
Construction Management - Commercial and Residential Electricity students are working with the Nelsonville Main Street organization to repair and install new receptacles at the base of the trees around Stuart's Opera House, the fountain and along the sidewalk near Peoples Bank.
Mike Summers, Commercial and Residential Electricity program coordinating instructor, offers students hand-on experience in real work environments. Although organizations and individuals contact the College frequently seeking assistance from these students, the program instructors use three criteria to choose the experience opportunities for students.
First, the project must either serve the community or have a service component. Second, the project must allow students to gain usable insight into developing their skill and knowledge of the craft. Third, and equally important as the other two, the project must not be one that interferes with the livelihood of any area contractors.
The Nelsonville Main Street project fits all three criteria, as they have a limited budgeted for the project, and the contractor that performed the original installation actually recommended the students and serves in an advisory capacity.
"I spent 30 years in the trade and the most gratifying work I experienced was that which served others, and I try to expose my students to this value and thought. They have skills and gifts with which to use in the service of those around us and will gain great personal growth from incorporating this philosophy into their careers. Even though all of our work is provided free of charge (except materials), all of my students to date have been accepting of this philosophy and have shown exceptional generosity toward their fellow students and community residents," Mike commented.
Great job to Mike and his students for their efforts in the community!
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